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Topic: Why MSEQ only? How about ASEQ? (Read 4854 times)

Great piece of software you've written here! Yesterday I tried to make the switch from computing-based scheduler running to FPP-based scheduler running, but was having issues getting LSP to export the files correctly for xLights/NC to do something with them... I installed your software this morning and whoila! Perfectly functioning file running in both xLights/NC and on the FPP. SOO, why am I posting here aside from offering praise? Well, it seems that the Light Elf only has the option of working with MSEQ files. I have several music-free ASEQ files that I want to convert. Is there some reason why this is not an option? I am not going to have music going this year (for the third year in a row after 6 years with it, which doesn't make me happy), but I need to still convert those files over to run on the FPP... I am not sure if there's an option in LSP to save as an MSEQ if you are not putting a music file in... I'm guessing that would wreak havoc on things...

When I did my reverse engineering on LSP file format I was only focused on the MSQ files. It is likely that they are predominately the same but I cannot validate that. It would seem like a work around would be to copy and paste your sequence into a MSQ file. Just create a blank sound file in Audacity for the time frame that you want and that should get you what you need.

If you are still interested I wouldn't mind exploring conversion of ASEQ files as well. should be a straight forward problem to solve.

Hi Frank, no worries! We're all busy this time of year. I think it would be useful to be able to convert both. I ended up giving up on music this year, so I did all of my sequences as mseq with an mp3, which I could do because there were no speakers or fm transmitter. ;-) your suggestion is a great work around that I didn't even think about with the blank sound file.